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2026 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 15–18, 2026
Phoenix, AZ|Arizona Grand Resort & Spa
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Westinghouse, Nordion, and PSEG team up to produce Co‑60 in the United States
This past January, Westinghouse Electric Company, Nordion, and PSEG Nuclear formalized agreements to implement newly developed cobalt-60 production technology at Units 1 and 2 of PSEG’s Salem nuclear power plant in New Jersey, with the Co-60 to be supplied to Nordion. Through an ongoing joint initiative, the companies aim to harness U.S. pressurized water reactors to produce a key medical isotope and build the first commercial-scale Co-60 production platform in the United States.
Technical Session|Sponsored by 7. HUMAN FACTORS, INSTRUMENTATION, AND CONTROLS (HFICD)
Wednesday, November 18, 2026|8:00–9:45AM MST|Room 3
Session Chair:
Miltiadis Alamaniotis
Alternate Chair:
Xingang Zhao (University of Tennessee Knoxville)
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XAI-Applied Cyber-Physical Defense and Risk-Informed Assessment of Nuclear SMART Valves for SMRs
8:00–8:20AM MST
Christian Schmitt (University of Texas at San Antonio), Miltiadis Alamaniotis
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Resource-Aware Event-Driven FPGA Inference for Nuclear Edge Monitoring
8:20–8:40AM MST
Jiwoon Lee, Jason Yoo, Kazuma Kobayashi (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Bader Almutairi (Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research), Sajedul Talukder, Syed Bahauddin Alam
Uncertainty-Aware Transfer Learning Towards Trustworthy Foundation Models for Nuclear
8:40–9:00AM MST
William I. Howes (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign), Farid Ahmed (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Syed Bahauddin Alam (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning in a Microreactor Control Environment
9:00–9:20AM MST
Leo Tunkle (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Linyu Lin (Idaho National Laboratory), Majdi I. Radaideh (University of Michigan Ann Arbor)
A Hardware/Software Co-Design Pathway for Edge-Deployable Neural-Operator Virtual Sensing
9:20–9:40AM MST
Jason Yoo (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), William Howes (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Jiwoon Lee, Kazuma Kobayashi (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Bader Almutairi (Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research), Sajedul Talukder (University of Texas at El Paso), Syed Bahauddin Alam (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)